Das Moabiter Duo is a music project founded by
Sven-Åke Johansson and
Thomas Kapielski in
Berlin
during the 1980s.
Sven-Åke Johansson (born 1943 in Mariestad, Sweden) is one of the style-defining drummers of the German
free
jazz era of the 1960s and 1970s. From the 1980s onwards, he pursued an artistic path largely independent of institutions and groups as a music performer in the circles of fine arts and
new music. Among other things, more than fifty record releases, a number of music
theatre pieces,
radio
plays, pictorial works and a lively touring life are among his oeuvre.
Thomas Kapielski (born 1951 in Berlin, where he lives and works) is
perhaps better known as an author, with publications at Merve, Suhrkamp
etc., certainly also as an artist. But since the 1980s he has also been
active as a musician. He released records with Frieder Butzmann, among
others.
